Wild Trailer for BLUE LOCK Turns Soccer Into a Brutal Game of Survival
Toho just dropped the trailer for Blue Lock, the live-action adaptation of the massively popular anime and manga which revolves around soccer. It’s about ego, pressure, and what happens when competition gets dialed up to an almost unhinged level.
If you thought sports movies were all teamwork speeches and slow-motion goals, this thing is coming in hot to flip that idea on its head.
The story centers on a problem that’s haunted Japan’s national soccer program for years. A lack of scorers. The solution is extreme.
A secret project called Blue Lock brings together 300 of the country’s top high school strikers and locks them into a ruthless training facility designed to crush anyone who doesn’t have the mindset of a pure goal-hungry monster. Team play takes a back seat. Ego is the point.
The synopsis reads: “The Japanese national soccer team has long suffered from a lack of scoring power. To break this deadlock and aim for World Cup victory, a top-secret project was planned. Its name: ‘Blue Lock.’
“Here, they are told that what the world's greatest striker needs is not team play, but an obsession with goals and an unshakable ‘ego.’ 300 high school strikers are gathered to undergo brutal trials for survival.
“Only the last one standing will become the world's greatest striker. Meanwhile, those eliminated face a cruel condition: permanent disqualification from ever joining the Japanese team.”
At the center of the chaos is Seiichi Kiyoshi, played by Fumiya Takahashi, an unknown high school player thrown into a pressure cooker with 299 other strikers who all want the same thing. The trailer makes it clear this isn’t just about scoring goals. It’s about breaking rivals mentally before you break them on the field.
“Can unknown high school player Seiichi Kiyoshi (Fumiya Takahashi) knock out 299 others and prove his ego to become the ultimate ace striker!?”
Visually, the movie leans into a sharp, almost sci-fi aesthetic that makes the training facility feel more like an experiment than a sports academy. There’s a definite survival-game vibe here. From what the trailer shows, nobody’s safe, and every match feels like a make-or-break moment.
The movie was directed by Yûsuke Taki, who previously helmed In Love & Deep Water and worked on series like Land of Tanabata and The Monster Within. The screenplay comes from Tetsuo Kamata, adapting the manga created by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura.
Toho is set to release Blue Lock in Japanese theaters starting August 7th, 2026.